and Unintentional Firearm Deaths Name: __________________________ Date: _____/_____/_____ 1. How might the possibility that “. . . where there are more guns parents care less about their children’s welfare. . . .” influence the inference one can reach from Dr. Miller’s study? 2. Why did Dr. Miller “. . . control for state level of poverty, urbanization and regionalization”? 3. How does Dr. Mill...

“Urbanization” encompasses a diverse array of watershed alterations that influence the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of streams. In this chapter, we summarize lessons learned from the last half century of research on urban streams and provide a critique of various mitigation strategies, including recent approaches that explicitly address geomorphic processes. We focus first...

oncerns about urbanization and economic developthe question of how the causality works. Economic de_ ment go hand in hand, for a number of reasons. velopment makes it possible for people to produce more. Beyond the question of whether urbanization is a cause Why should this possibility lead to urbanization? Can or a consequence of development, it is the backdrop for our understanding of the lin...

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Urbanization is the most drastic form of land use change affecting biodiversity and ecosystem functioning and services far beyond the limits of cities. To understand the process of urbanization itself as well as its ecological consequences, it is important to quantify the spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization. Based on historical land use data, we characterize the temporal patterns of Phoenix...